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...former San Francisco school superintendent, is director of the National Occupational Conference, which was founded in 1922-under the leadership of General Robert Irwin Rees, head of the A.E.F.'s University in France in 1918-19-to gather facts about jobs. Dr. Lee herded 13 top-rank public-school superintendents into a private Pullman and for ten days, with their expenses paid by the Carnegie Corporation, these superintendents toured the schools of eight cities. They found interesting experiments, but nowhere did the superintendents find a complete, effective program of occupational adjustment...
Certainly many Red army officers who served under him in the Far East were purged. One good reason why Russia showed little enthusiasm for the Czecho-slovak cause fortnight ago was that her two top-rank military heads, Defense Commissar Kliment E. Voroshilov and Vice Commissar of Defense Lev Zakharovich Mekhlis, were not even in Moscow. They were over 3,000 miles away keeping a personal watch on the purge's progress in Siberia...
...story of a '"typical" (but unidentified) village of 309 people in Indiana. Authors of this child's Middletown are Stanford University's young Professor Paul R. Hanna, progressive education's No. 1 curriculum expert; University of Chicago's Professor William S. Gray, a top-rank expert on reading; and Genevieve Anderson, a Des Moines assistant elementary school director...
...Ambassador to Germany, abruptly flew to London and the I. S. Ambassador to Germany, Hugh Wilson flew to Paris. Mr. Wilson conferred with U. S. Ambassador to France, William Christian Bullitt, and to join them U. S. Ambassador to Britain, Joseph Kennedy, broke off his vacation on the Riviera. Top-rank diplomats do not thus dash about unless urgent matters are at stake. Bonds of virtually all the Great Powers weakened in London. There fiscal authorities put aside their strained optimism of the past few weeks to agree "the peril of war is acute...
Dictator Stalin's veteran favorite, Lazar Kaganovich, big-nosed and brutally effective in driving Soviet bureaucrats to greater Five-Year Plan zeal was last week gazetted a Vice Premier. Thus was promoted a man who is one of the few remaining Old Bolshevik top-rank members of the Government, deserving of promotion if only for the amount of trouble he has shouldered. But even such good news as a promotion was a reflection of a purge. The announcement made passing mention of "former" Vice Premiers Vlas Chubar and Stanislav Kosior. Chubar and Kosior recently failed of election to either...